Dubai International Academic City (DIAC) located in the Dubai Academic City is the world’s only Free Zone dedicated to higher education. A regional base for premier international higher education institutions, DIAC is the world’s first dedicated tertiary cluster development. Spread across an area of 25 million square feet, the DIAC campus provides an environment of vitality and inspiration for students and faculty.

DIAC offers a self contained environment with world class facilities for recreational activities including restaurants, cinema, gym and sports grounds. A well appointed hostel accommodation provided within the campus allows for a well rounded educational experience.
Currently over 20 international universities of higher learning from diverse regions including Australia, India, Pakistan, Iran, Russia, Belgium, UK and Ireland operate out of DKV and DIAC, catering to over 9,000 students. These include The University of Wollongong in Dubai, from Australia, Middlesex University Dubai Campus, from UK and S.P Jain Centre of Management Dubai, from India among others.

These institutions offer programmes that range in duration from one year to four years. Major academic programmes on offer include engineering, computer science, fashion and design, biotechnology, environmental studies, quality management and business management programmes.

DIAC is a strategic base for companies targeting emerging markets in a vast region extending from the Middle East to the Indian subcontinent, and from Africa to the CIS countries, covering 2 billion people with a GDP of $6.7 trillion.
The global ICT giants are all here, including Microsoft, Oracle, HP, IBM, Dell, Siemens, Canon, Logica, Sony Ericsson, Schlumberger and Cisco, as well as many small and medium enterprises and entrepreneurial ventures. The ICT cluster in Dubai Internet City comprises companies from various sectors: software development, business services, ecommerce, consultancy and sales and marketing.

DIAC provides an environment that attracts most elements of the value chain for an ICT business. In addition, it has developed programmes that can be leveraged by the ICT community to explore and expand channel and business development opportunities.